Life as Chess simul

Sunday, July 11, 2010 4 Comments »
The below post was written a long time ago but I never posted it knowing that I had just blabbered something silly. But I don't know; I don't care any more (16 Apr 2011).

Life seems to be like a Chess simul where a single chess player (usually a grand master) plays against a large number of other players simultaneously. In real life, however, you may not be the grand master, but you have to play anyway, for there is no escape.

The opponents you face are not just people, but also a large number of other abstract entities - which may include such personal traits as anger, courage, happiness, honesty, selfishness and much more ill-defined ones such as managing-others'-perception-of-you. Yes, you are in a game of Chess with all of them in a Chess simul. Can you imagine that? You might ask - "Why should I make happiness my opponent?". My answer is - "Do you want to be defeated in life by Happiness, whatever that means? No? So you play along and down the line of opponents, you do play against Unhappiness as well because you do not want to be defeated by unhappiness either, again, whatever that means".

Throughout your life, you keep moving across the boards making one move after another against your opponents with largely one ultimate motive every single time - to win, to be successful, or at the very least - not to lose.
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